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...story is clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there...
...both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just One Girl," by Edward Richard, is a frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness of an observant sort, proves beyond doubt that the writer has no knowledge of human nature. In "Old and New," J. H. Cabot, 2nd, '00, undertakes to delineate the character of a Casco...
...pass the river and overpower the batteries which defended the one road to the island, he needed gun-boats and transports. By a wonderful feat of engineering, a canal, six miles long, but shallow, was cut across a submerged peninsular, from loop to loop of the river and the frail transports thus passed around the batteries. A gun-boat, the Carondelet, boldly ran the gauntlet of the fort at night, running so close under the banks that, before the guns could be sufficiently depressed, she was out of range...
...compromise" boats. Of this pattern also are the three boats built by Davy. This kind of boat is just like a shell in appearance but is much broader and more buoyant so as to stand rough water. Although not so light as shells they are not very much less frail and men using them ought to take great care in handling them...
...firmly the Yale management has trenched itself behind the constitution of the Foot-Ball Association, and how little Harvard has to base its claims upon except the honor of the Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given...